EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
Health systems are investing tens of millions, and in some cases more than $100 million, in Epic projects ranging from new EHR implementations to major rebuilds of existing systems. Here are the costs of four recent projects, as reported by…
Hospital executives have had little room to breathe when it comes to big investments. Median hospital operating margins were still hovering near 2% through early 2026, squeezed by rising expenses, an eroding payer mix and softening patient volumes, and finance…
Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota is preparing for an Oct. 3 Epic go-live, but the decision behind the implementation was more than a decade in the making. The health system ran Oracle Health in its hospitals and eClinicalWorks in affiliated ambulatory clinics…
York, Pa.-based WellSpan Health expects its quarterly Epic upgrades to become faster and less resource-intensive as a result of the health system’s newly completed migration to Amazon Web Services. “Our future Epic upgrades, which we go through every quarter, will…
For a growing number of health systems, Epic optimization is becoming as consequential as the go-live itself. Epic is continuing to roll out new tools for its customer base in 2026, part of the company’s push to expand the role…
Oracle Health’s month centered on the fallout from last year’s Cerner data breach, a new rural EHR go-live and a fresh look at how its federal contracts stack up against the rest of the industry’s priciest EHR projects. Here are…
When hospitals and health systems started charging patients for MyChart messages amid the pandemic, the reasoning was straightforward: Give clinicians a way to be compensated for the growing volume of medical advice flowing through patient portals, and perhaps slow that…
Epic’s past 30 days have brought a leadership shakeup, a fresh round of noncompete lawsuits and signs the EHR giant is still expanding, both at home and abroad. Here are seven Epic updates Becker’s has reported in July:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has contacted several health systems nationwide requesting emergency room records, including personally identifiable patient information, KFF Health News reported July 27. CPSC oversees safety for most consumer products sold to American households, excluding food, drugs,…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence saw an 84% overall acceptance rate for AI-generated drafts across 14 Epic workflows during the first week after its recent Epic upgrade, according to a LinkedIn post from Adar Palis, senior vice president of clinical and revenue…